NDP Leader Cam Broten wants the provincial government to get serious about the calls to action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).

After six years of national consultations, and after more than 6,750 survivor and witness statements, the TRC released an interim report with its recommendations in June and issued its final report last week. The Sask. Party government has largely remained quiet on the TRC's recommendations.

"We have to seize this unprecedented opportunity to repair the harm and work for reconciliation," said Broten. “Closing the education gap and partnering with First Nations and Métis communities to create loads of jobs and opportunities – that’s the right thing to do, both morally and economically.

Over the last two years, more people have left Saskatchewan than moved in from other provinces, and the latest numbers from Statistics Canada show over half of them are under 40, and 70 per cent are under the age of 65.

Since 2013, Saskatchewan has had a net loss of about 5,700 people to interprovincial migration, which means more people left Saskatchewan than moved to the province from other parts of Canada.

Earlier this week, Brad Wall dismissed that, claiming the losses are simply because “a small number of people from Saskatchewan are moving to B.C. to retire.” But Statistics Canada's numbers show Wall had his facts wrong. The reality is that seven out of every 10 people leaving Saskatchewan were under the age of 65.

“Every single quarter since 2013, our province has lost more and more Saskatchewan people – including a lot of young people – to other provinces,” said NDP deputy leader Trent Wotherspoon. “I don’t know why Mr. Wall is brushing that off and pretending it doesn't matter, it does matter and this trend ought to be raising alarm bells."

The Sask. Party believes that having Saskatchewan people be the project managers on the Saskatchewan Hospital at North Battleford is very risky – which is why they’re willing to pay millions more to have a corporation from the United Kingdom manage the building and maintenance.

A government report released Thursday shows that the price of building and handling maintenance of the mental health and corrections facility through straightforward public building and ownership methods is $309 million. The same price via a P3 rent-a-hospital scheme is $363.4 million.

But the Sask. Party then says it estimates that having Saskatchewan people manage the project equates to a whopping $176 million in ‘risk.’ P3 ‘risk’ calculations have been panned by auditors across the country as unjustified, largely made-up numbers to make P3 projects look better than they are and were called “full of assumptions” by Saskatchewan’s own auditor.

The Saskatchewan Medical Association (SMA), which represents 90 per cent of the province's physicians, is strongly opposed to the Sask. Party's user-pay, two-tier MRI plan.

An internal memo says senior SMA leadership met with the health minister at the end of October to warn him about this "hasty policy."

The doctors’ memo reads: "We expressed strong opposition to Bill 179 that provides for private MRI facilities. We stressed that the SMA advocates for and supports the concept of a strong publicly funded health care system where access to medical care is based on need and not the ability to pay. This new legislation runs contrary to this fundamental principle of medicare."

Building and owning schools the straightforward way would save $50 million according to the government’s own numbers. But in order to justify using a pricey P3 rent-a-school scheme, a government report released Monday tacks $150 million in “risk” to its calculation on the cost of public schools.